• Valmond@lemmy.world
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        16 days ago

        True, you need to understand things like no you won’t get a 4TB SSD for 25€, but they have lots and lots of mechanical and electronics that are totally OK IMO. I even have a couple of training shorts from there and basically everything except the hot-end for my homebrew 3D printer comes from there (or Alibaba before that). For example.

        • Aniki 🌱🌿@discuss.tchncs.de
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          16 days ago

          I get LOTS of bulk order microprocessors, LED strings, shit tons of random electronic crap for pennies compared to even Amazon. I don’t mind the wait.

      • piccolo@ani.social
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        16 days ago

        Aliexpress isnt as bad… its basically exactly rhe same as amazon… but direct from china, and cuts bezos out of the picture…